Lion Links is the collaborative tool used by the St. Mark's librarians to better serve the St Mark's community. 

 

 

This tool will the library faculty and staff provide the students, faculty, parents, and alumni with information on using the vast resources of the St Mark's Libraries. The resources found here include research tools, reading lists, online library instruction, subject guides, specific class research projects, library special collections, instructional guides to subscription databases, author profiles, and special pages for library activities land groups like the Upper School Book Club and Green Library Parent Volunteers. Our core goal is to create a framework of topical research guides and arrange them using the Dewey Decimal System of organization by topic. We will connect relevant resources available for research topics including books, journals, media, web sites, and subscription electronic databases.

 

One of the main resources we will provide will be the creation and archiving of research guides designed to help St Mark's students, parents, and faculty conduct topical research in the libraries. These guides will be designed around the framework of the Dewey Decimal System. We will connect the resources available for any specific research topic accessing all resources that would be relevant to that research--including print, media, web sites, and subscription databases.

 

The Lion links will also provide additional information to all library patrons.; ongoing specific library research projects; library special collections;  instructional guides to electronic subscription databases; authors; book club; and online library instruction.

 

 

• 000 – Computer science, information, and general works
• 100 – Philosophy and psychology
• 200 – Religion
• 300 – Social sciences
• 400 – Language
• 500 – Science
• 600 – Technology
• 700 – Arts and recreation
• 800 – Literature
• 900 – History and geography

 

This page will include information on special library activities and events, such as Book Swap, for which the library offers an updated online updated “virtual” inventory of books available for "swap."  The site will also offer an an online outlet for the library to coordinate library volunteers - contact information, and schedules - in a password protected format.  Additionally, the site will post collaborative Library 2.0 wiki pages for specific groups headed by a librarian, a classroom instructor, and student groups such as he Debaters and the US Book Club. These will be password protected and unavailable to the public. Members only will be allowed online dicussions and collaborative editing.

 

See below for a report by the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC), a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world's information and reducing information costs.

 

OCLC press release and related links: "The practice of using a social network to establish and enhance relationships based on some common ground—shared interests, related skills, or a common geographic location—is as old as human societies, but social networking has flourished due to the ease of connecting on the Web. This OCLC membership report explores this web of social participation and cooperation on the Internet and how it may impact the library’s role, including: The use of social networking, social media, commercial and library services on the Web; How and what users and librarians share on the Web and their attitudes toward related privacy issues; Opinions on privacy online; Libraries’ current and future roles in social networking."

·  Complete text of the OCLC Report: Sharing, Privacy and Trust in Our Networked World, October 2007 (280 pages, PDF)

·  Highlights of the Report (16 pages, PDF)

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